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" Most theater tells you what to think. "

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" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

" I do still collect chairs. "

" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "

" Chairs are like sculpture. "

" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "

" What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. "

" I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera. "

" When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. "

" The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' "

" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "

" Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "

" I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. "

" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "

" I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism. "

" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "

" At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages, gyms, churches, non-traditional spaces. The idea was to get away from the illusion of the conventional theatre. But then I thought, what's wrong with illusion? "

" I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. "

" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? "

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "